Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will-power, discipline one’s body and train one’s mind.
—Anil Ambani (Indian Businessperson)
Love your job, but never fall in love with your company because you never know when the company stops loving you.
—N. R. Narayana Murthy (Indian Businessperson)
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
—Peter Drucker (Austrian-born Management Consultant)
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
—John Stuart Mill (English Philosopher, Economist)
We become like those with whom we associate: a mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
—The Holy Bible (Scripture in the Christian Faith)
The chief duty I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
—Helen Keller (American Author)
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there’s so little competition.
—Elbert Hubbard (American Writer)
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one’s own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
—Sakya Pandita